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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963

"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"
Giorgos Seferis
Giorgos Seferis
(pen-name of Giorgos Seferiadis)
Greece
b. 1900
(in Smyrna, Turkey)
d. 1971
 
 
 
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